ALBANY, N.Y. - The University at Albany women's basketball will close a three-game road streak at Boston College on Sunday, November 28.
 
Masks will be required inside all buildings on campus.
 
GAME INFORMATION
 
UAlbany at Boston College
DATE: Sunday, November 28
TIME: 12:00 PM
SITE: Conte Forum - Chestnut Hill, Mass.
RECORDS: UAlbany 1-2, 0-0 America East | Boston College 4-1, 0-0 ACC
SERIES RECORD: 0-0, first meeting
STATS: StatBroadcast
TICKETS: BCEagles.com
STREAM: ACCNX
 
*records as of 11/27
 
HEAD COACH COLLEEN MULLEN
"Boston College is an athletic, talented team with a strong post presence. We need to be ready to defend their inside-out attack and limit their transition scores. Offensively, we need to execute and maintain our composure against their pressure defense."

GREAT DANE REWIND

• UAlbany opened the season with a 29-point victory over Hofstra (11/10), beating the Pride for the first time in program history.
• Most recently, the Great Danes fell from a buzzer-beating three-pointer at Cornell (11/24) after a loss at Merrimack (11/16).
• Senior Ellen Hahne leads the team with 33 points, shooting a team-high 44% (5-9) from outside the arc and 5-6 from the free-throw line for a team-high 83%.
• Junior Helene Haegerstrand tallied 16 points at Cornell and now follows Hahne with 32 points on the season. Haegerstrand has made 50% of her shots from the field (13-26).
• Senior Lucia Decortes had a breakout game in Ithaca to own a season team-high 64% shooting percentage from the field (7-11). The forward has totaled 18 rebounds, 11 offensive, leading the team in both total and offensive rebounds.
• Redshirt-sophomore Morgan Haney follows with 17 total rebounds and a team-high 15 defensive rebounds.
• Freshman Lilly Phillips has totaled seven assists while Decortes leads with three blocks.
• Every single player from the 13-person roster saw action and contributed with a point or an assist in the season-opening game. 
• Of the 168 points scored in three games, the bench has tallied 67 points. This includes half (26) of the 52 points scored at Merrimack.
• As a team, UAlbany is hitting 37.4% from the field, 32.3% outside the arc, and 56.3% from the free-throw line. The Great Danes are averaging 56.0 points per game, 41.0 rebounds per game, and 13 assists per game.

 
ABOUT BOSTON COLLEGE

• The Eagles are 4-1 on the season.
• Boston College saw a 26-point victory over Harvard (11/9) and a 25-point victory over Holy Cross (11/13) during opening week.
• After falling at Boston University (11/17), the Eagles saw victories against Providence (11/20) and Northeastern (11/24).
• Taylor Soule leads the team with 97 points (19.4 per game), shooting 69% from the field and 50% from outside the arc.
• Maria Gakdeng leads on the glass with 25 total rebounds while Soule owns a team-high 14 offensive rebounds and Marnelle Garraud leads with a team-high 20 defensive rebounds.
• Garraud sits atop the team with 15 steals and 23 assists.
• Gakdeng has compiled a team-high eight blocks.
• As a team, Boston College is hitting 46.3% from the field, 30.6% outside the arc, and 70.1% from the free-throw line. The Eagles are averaging 73.6 points per game, 38.4 rebounds per game, and 17.6 assists per game.

 
PAST CONNECTIONS

• Before making her most recent stop at Boston College, head coach Joanna Bernabei-McNamee served as the Great Danes' head coach for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons. 
• During the 2016-17 season, Bernabei-McNamee coached UAlbany to win the America East Championship Tournament and take on the NCAA Tournament. The Great Danes finished with a 21-12 overall record and a 12-4 conference record.
• In 2017-18, her team tallied just eight losses with 24 wins overall.

 
SERIES AGAINST THE EAGLES

• This will be the first meeting between UAlbany and Boston College.

 
AROUND THE AMERICA EAST

• Stony Brook leads the conference with six wins; the Seawolves are the only undefeated team in the America East.
• Binghamton and New Hampshire follow with 3-2 records each.
• NJIT sits even with three wins and three losses.
• UMass Lowell and Vermont have played five games, winning two.
• UAlbany (1-2) and Maine (2-4) are tied with a 33% win rate
• UMBC has tallied one win and four losses while Hartford rounds out the conference looking for its first win after five losses.

 
AMERICA EAST CONTESTS THIS WEEK

• Saturday
  • Brown at Vermont, 12 pm
  • Saint Peter's at NJIT, 2 pm
  • UMBC at Wake Forest, 4 pm
• Sunday
  • North Dakota or Bucknell at Vermont, TBA
  • UAlbany at Boston College, 12 pm
  • Maine at Princeton, 1 pm
  • Hartford at Quinnipiac, 1 pm
  • St. Francis Brooklyn at Stony Brook, 2 pm
  • New Hampshire at Wagner, 4 pm 

 
WHAT'S UP, PRESEASON

• The Great Dane women's basketball team was picked to finish fifth in the conference in the preseason coaches' poll. With six first-place votes and 78 total points, Stony Brook was voted to finish first with Maine just behind (74 points, three first-place votes). 
• UAlbany added four new players to the roster for the 2021-22 season - Koi Sims, Lilly Phillips, Abby Ray, and Freja Werth

 
DRIVE THE LANE WITH UALBANY HOOPS

• UAlbany has expanded its partnership with ESPN Radio 104.5 The Team and City Line Bar & Grill.
• Coaches Colleen Mullen and Dwayne Killings, along with select student-athletes, will join ESPN Radio 104.5 The Team's Charlie Voelker and Dan Bahl every Monday from 6-7 pm live from City Line Bar & Grill for a weekly segment entitled 'Drive the Lane with UAlbany Hoops'.
• Fans are invited to come out to City Line Bar & Grill to join Coach Mullen, Coach Kills, the student-athletes, and the ESPN Radio 104.5 The Team crew. 
• Food and drink specials will be available on a weekly basis as the teams embark on their new seasons and talk hoops every Monday.

 
UP NEXT

• The Great Danes will return home to host Bryant College on December 1.

For more information on the University at Albany women's basketball team, follow the squad's official social media accounts shown below.
Twitter - @ualbanywbb
Instagram - @ualbanywbb
Facebook – facebook.com/UAlbanyWBB